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97919.11 in reply to 97919.8
Date: 6/21/2009 4:30:29 PM
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As long as we can avoid the last syllable of Illinois it makes sense (a joke). That syllable is always a controversey where I grew up.


last syllable of Illinois is a controversy even in Illinois so we better keep the subject away from that

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97919.12 in reply to 97919.11
Date: 6/22/2009 9:12:13 AM
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Gates , thanks for the laugh. and yes it is controversial. But, I don't know why hoosiers have trouble saying Iowa?

I should ask about Verneris Liubinas. He comes from Lithuania.

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97919.13 in reply to 97919.8
Date: 6/26/2009 3:54:50 AM
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I'm not Italian and therefore I might be wrong, but I believe that your player name should be pronounced "Chee-chee" [most definitely not "Seekchee" or "Cheekchee"]. To be honest, Chi-chi would probably make more sense to me, but for an American, I would say that Chee-chee is probably more accurate.
Sound "Ch" shouldn't be pronounced as hard as it's pronounced in words such as "Chuck" and "Cheese", though, but a bit softer. Perhaps something like "Ch" in "Chimney".

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97919.14 in reply to 97919.13
Date: 6/26/2009 2:30:47 PM
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I'm Italian. The correct pronunciation is Cheeckee. Well actually it's a little bit different but I can't think of a better approximation, after all different languages have different sounds.

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97919.15 in reply to 97919.14
Date: 6/26/2009 10:50:20 PM
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Thank you, Italian gselfish. I prefer the advice of native speakers. To use English sounds I choose the words cheek key. I thionk the glottal stop in the middle is important. It's not one k sound, but two. not cheeky, but cheek key.

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97919.16 in reply to 97919.15
Date: 6/28/2009 6:15:49 AM
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That's correct. I would only point out that the accent is on the first syllable, so the best phonetic transcription is probably:
chēk'kē

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97919.17 in reply to 97919.16
Date: 6/28/2009 12:03:31 PM
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Thank you for the good use of phonetics. It is better than I have done in phonetics. I'm happy to see where the accent is too.